Born
on August 5, 1915, he was the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief of the Chicago
Daily News and one of the nation's best-known journalists. He appeared
frequently on television. He died on December 10, 1976 at the Northern
Virginia Veterans Administration Hospital. He was 61 and had been suffering
from cancer since February.

He was once described by a "senior official"
of the State Department as a "strange phenomenon." The official continued,
"You write for a newspaper that virtually no one in Washington reads. Yet
you are one of the most influential newspapermen in the nation's capital.
You never make heroes of public officials - that is perhaps an understatement
- yet they respect you, they seek your advice, and they consider you their
friend. You are the Renaissance Man of the Washington press - equally adept
at writing, reportinf, television and commentary." Thus Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger shared a widely held view of Mr. Lisagor in the
award in 1976 of the Edward Weintel Prize for Diplomatic Reporting at the
George Washington University School of Foreign Service."